Coffee Ceremony Awasa Ethiopia One of the customs in Ethiopia is to make and drink coffee with friends, if you are invited to a persons house to drink coffee, the answer should be “Yes.” I am still learning how to edit with this new program I am using called VideoPad Video Editor.
--------------------------------- Awasa, Ethiopia Three to Four Hours South of Addis, Ababa East Africa Thursday, March 19, 2009 Travelogue, - Awasa Hotels on HoboHideOut.com ---------------------------------
This is a girls in Awasa, Ethiopia cooking the coffee beans before she sends to a little boy to grind.
This round piece of molded steel is put on top of a charcoal burner especially made for cooking coffee. They will continually stir the beans as they cook.
After the bean changed color from a light green color to a more dark chocolate or almost burned color she gave them to this little boy. He put in a round grinder type device common in the world, and he more or less smashed the beans.
When I am in the markets here in Ethiopia, I can find all the various items they use to conduct the coffee ceremony being sold.
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Anonymous said on Thursday March 19th, 2009 12:45:00 PM
Hi Andy,This is such an awesome post - thanks! How did you get invited back to their home for the ceremony?Best,Frank
CT_Bob said on Friday March 20th, 2009 01:34:00 PM
Great post. You should get one of them actually brewing the coffee. There are so many different ways to do it and this is often part of the ceremony.Bob L
I'm an Ethiopian and was just surfing about Ethiopia and Ethiopians...I'm a blogger too. What caught my eye was that you had to pay 2-8 USD to upload a video. Dude that's just too expensive. In fact, I think you're being robbed. Ask an Ethiopian friend to take you to a cafe he knows.
